Top 1200 Fine Arts Quotes & Sayings

The rapidly evolving global economy demands a dynamic and creative workforce. The arts and its related businesses are responsible for billions of dollars in cultural exports for this country. It is imperative that we continue to support the arts and arts education both on the national and local levels. The strength of every democracy is measured by its commitment to the arts.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

The audience for comics has shifted dramatically. And the boundaries between books and fine arts have blurred. Maybe it's the globalization of fine art through the Internet - it's easy for certain groups to coalesce around a certain kind of work or medium.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

I'd like to see the comics' style expanded. I'd like to see artists synthesize traditional comics arts style with fine-arts styles or whatever. I like to see innovation. I don't like it when an art form becomes stagnant.

The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest work of the craftsmen, if art is there, there is a concern for beauty, through a kind of indirect repercussion that the requirements of the creativity of the spirit exercise upon the production of an object to serve human needs.

I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.

I got a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Catholic University of America in D.C. and started working as an understudy at the Arena.

I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.

The dance is the most universal of the arts, since, as Goethe justly said, it could destroy all the fine arts. It is an expression of all the emotions of the spirit, from the lowest to the highest. It accompanies and stimulates all the processes of life, from hunting and farming to war and fertility, from love to death. It enables, in turn other arts to come into being: music, song, drama. Despite all their riches, the dance is no formless complex, but a simple unity.

For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.

No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.

There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be the application of brush to canvas, chisel to marble, bow to string... It may be the control of voice in song or the control of body in dance. It is the mastery of the interface that comprises the artistry; it is what constitutes the 'art' in fine art.

The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up.

I studied fine arts, and color and composition was always my thing, but I've never been too wild with my fashion.

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.

The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.

Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken word, the writing that goes into it is an art form - it's certainly artistry.

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.

I have a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre.

Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.

If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.

The people who fund the arts, provide the arts, and research the arts have all produced a consensus about the value of what they do, which hardly anyone challenges. But do the numbers add up? For all the claims made about the arts, how accurate are they?

I wasnt always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.

We are not simply intellectual creatures. We wish to make love, to enjoy a gourmet dinner, to jog in the park, to cheer lustily at a ball game, to engage in spirited conversation with our friends, to play bridge or tennis, travel to exotic places, struggle with others to build a better world, and to enjoy the arts. The arts are so vital because they help to make life worth living. Music, poetry, literature, paintings, dance, and the theater are among our richest joys...The fine arts contribute immeasurably to the good life and that is why we cherish them.

Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College.

Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.

When it came time to go to university, I wanted to study cinema studies and theater and not necessarily do a fine arts degree.

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

I graduated from my Master of Fine Arts program for writing for children and young adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Of course, for a master's program, you have to do a ton of reading. I would get up, usually around 5:30, to do my reading; otherwise, I would fall behind.

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.

Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

The truth is I studied fine arts in Switzerland. I was just interested. I had no dream of being a movie star.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

I have a doctorate in fine arts from Knox College in Illinois. All I did was give a speech, and now everybody has to call me Dr. Colbert.

When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.

Science needs the intuition and metaphorical power of the arts, and the arts need the fresh blood of science ... Interpretation is the logical channel of consilient explanation between science and the arts. The arts ... also nourish our craving for the mystical.

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Also, it began through the process of seeing, and feeling, and hearing, and smelling, and touching, and then remembering--I mean remembering in words--what these perceptual experiences were like, while trying to describe the endless invisible fears and desires of our inner lives.

High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

I am always going to be in the hood in my heart, but what I did was added on the masters of arts, fine arts and the doctorate... if you want me to pull that out, I can get very distinguished... but I'm not going there... I don't have to put on airs; the knowledge comes out - just listen.

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated to it.